Renaissance
This IDEA is a buzzword of the Renaissance. People's achievements, evident in the classics, are worthy of contemplation. People's contributions to science and the arts are something to behold!
What is Humanism?
His 95 Theses started the Protestant Reformation as he argued against the Catholic practice of Indulgences.
Who is Martin Luther?
European colonization of the Americas happened approximately at the same time as these two other major events in European History.
What are the Renaissance and Reformation?
The Glorious Revolution ended the English Civil War by placing these two monarchs from the Dutch House of Orange on the English throne.
Who were William and Mary?
In the Agricultural Revolution in England, villagers put up these structures to delineate who owned and controlled which fields. They signaled the end to the common land for grazing and farming.
What are enclosures?
This term means "of or pertaining to ancient Greece or Rome".
What is classical?
This man started a protestant sect in Geneva that believed in predestination, that people shouldn't drink alcohol in excess, and that there was to be no singing or dancing. His sect of Christianity is the basis of English Puritanism.
Who is John Calvin?
The global trade in goods, flora, fauna, and people resulting from the European conquest of the Americas is called THIS.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This treaty ended the Thirty Years War, gave the Netherlands independence from the Spanish Hapsburgs, and is seen as the beginning of European nation states.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
What is the Putting-Out System?
The period of time when Rome was the new cultural center and the Popes were patrons of the arts.
What is the High Renaissance?
Thousands of protestants were slaughtered in France during a wedding celebration. This mass murder is part of the French Wars of Religion and is called THIS.
What is the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
There is a major road in Bradenton named after this Spanish conquistador who waged a devastating war in Mexico against Moctezuma and the Aztec Empire.
Who was Cortez?
What are stadholders?
Clover is an example of this.
What is a fodder crop?
A Renaissance painting like the School of Athens is THIS. It was painting on a wall with quick-drying painting.
What is a fresco?
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
This treaty divided the colonized territories of the Americas and Africa between the Spanish and the Portuguese. It's the reason why Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is a series of violent uprisings of the nobility against Louis XIV of France. They wanted more representation in government.
What was the Fronde?
The increase of luxury goods like pottery by Josiah Wedgwood for folks from different economic backgrounds in Europe's 18th century is called this.
The Consumer Revolution.
He coined the phrase the Liberal Arts and also expounded on the idea of the Great Chain of Being
Who is Pico della Mirandola?
Who are the Jesuits / Society of Jesus?
He ruled the Inca empire in Peru and lost it to the Spanish and Pizzaro's troops.
Who was Atahualpa?
This court was seen as Charles the I as his right to use by God. He arrested Puritans and put them on trial in this secret court.
What is the Star Chamber?
THIS MAN's new Protestant religion (Methodism) is a signal of the new Protestant Revival in Europe. This is like the Great Awakening in the US, but Methodists will play a large role in the British Industrial Revolution.
Who was John Wesley?